August 29, 2015 Saturday Gardening Thread: Robert Ryman Edition [Y-not and KT]

Greetings fellow gardeners! Your hostess is somewhere in flyover country at present in a large SUV filled (one hopes) with her belongings, including loving spouse and pets. So this week's edition of the Saturday Gardening Thread will be a minimalist affair:

Untitled, 1965 by Robert Ryman

As always, KT was prepared with plenty of juicy gardening content, but I didn't want to risk not being able to put it up this weekend. (TWHS!)

Here are a couple of pictures that Mr. Y-not took during the walk-through of our new house last weekend showing our new backyard:

View of the backyard from the living room

View from the gazebo

Another view from the gazebo showing the golf course.

We have a gazebo and everything!

No pool though.

First order of business is that wall/pavers project I'd mentioned recently. (Do NOT comment on old threads!)

What's happening in your gardens this week?

[Addendum} Can someone identify this tree and this seed or nut pod?
Sorry about the crappy photos....(CBD)

tree ID.jpg

Platinum Membership for the correct answer ( I don't know it....).

Posted by: Open Blogger at 01:10 PM

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1 Hello?

Posted by: Sixkiller at August 29, 2015 01:10 PM (hRytD)

2 I love the view from the gazebo!

Posted by: Sixkiller at August 29, 2015 01:10 PM (hRytD)

3 Am I in some weird alternate universe?

Posted by: Sixkiller at August 29, 2015 01:11 PM (hRytD)

4 Where be the Horde?

Posted by: Sixkiller at August 29, 2015 01:11 PM (hRytD)

5 Sweep!

Posted by: Sixkiller at August 29, 2015 01:12 PM (hRytD)

6 I found Waldo!

Posted by: weew at August 29, 2015 01:14 PM (O1uuu)

7 Untitled, 1965 by Robert Ryman
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Works for me.

Posted by: John Cage, composer of 4'33" at August 29, 2015 01:14 PM (9mTYi)

8 That is one lazy artist. The least he could do is think up a title.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 01:15 PM (sdi6R)

9 Grass is for mowing!

Posted by: John Deere at August 29, 2015 01:15 PM (gwG9s)

10 I commented on an old thread. Now what happens?

Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at August 29, 2015 01:16 PM (3rmfJ)

11 it's a top-down view of frosted carrot cake

Posted by: weew at August 29, 2015 01:16 PM (O1uuu)

12
Golf course?
You have a golf course ?

*gazes at weedy backyard*

Posted by: John Cage, composer of 4'33 at August 29, 2015 01:16 PM (9mTYi)

13 Shed faux composer sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:17 PM (9mTYi)

14 Where all de poppies at?

Posted by: John Singah Seargent at August 29, 2015 01:22 PM (P6Jv8)

15 I'd have way too many divots in the backyard from practicing partial swing pitches to that green over there.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 29, 2015 01:22 PM (Wckf4)

16 I don't know why there are so many cabbage butterflies around here. They must be able to smell cabbage from miles away.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 01:22 PM (0qASP)

17 What a swanky joint.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:23 PM (3kBFI)

18 Beg your pardon, can I play through here?

Posted by: Fritz at August 29, 2015 01:23 PM (3tjn4)

19 Nice digs, Y-not. You can hop the fence with a putter and a 9-iron and get in some golf every day around dusk.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 01:23 PM (LUgeY)

20 I dislike it when works of art are tiled like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 01:24 PM (3pRHP)

21 Y-not, I knew you were moving but I missed out on where. What part of the country are you in now? What a beautiful yard and view!

Posted by: stace at August 29, 2015 01:24 PM (CoX6k)

22 What a swanky joint.

Place definitely looks out of my price range.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 01:24 PM (0qASP)

23 Confined to upstairs. Can watch as late blight consumes my highly resistant to late blight tomatoes. Growing whiskers and boredom at about the same rate.

Posted by: Agitator at August 29, 2015 01:25 PM (5xb20)

24 Sadly I had to bring in an early harvest this morning as we have a huge wind and rain storm coming. Brought in the bell peppers, cucumbers, the last of the zucchini, jalapenos, and the tomatoes.
The romas didn't do well this year but the cherry tomatoes was spectacular. Sweet and juicy, just pop one into your mouth and it explodes with yummy goodness.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 29, 2015 01:25 PM (r65B3)

25 Wow.
Can you adopt me, Y-Not?

Posted by: @votermom at August 29, 2015 01:25 PM (cbfNE)

26
Those columns look familiar.
Here's a pic I sent Jim (sunk New Dawn) while inquiring about a new roof for our side porch.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nkqrbgm

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:26 PM (9mTYi)

27 Happy little trees. Hapy fence. Happy grass.

Posted by: Bob Ross at August 29, 2015 01:27 PM (P6Jv8)

28 Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 01:24 PM (0qASP)

I think Y-not paid for it with runway modelling fees.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2015 01:28 PM (Zu3d9)

29 Y, I heard you mention something about moving. I missed most of the discussion. Are you moving?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:28 PM (3kBFI)

30 My guess is a silver maple.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 01:29 PM (LUgeY)

31 Happy grass.
Posted by: Bob Ross
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Our grass is... sad.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:29 PM (9mTYi)

32 >>>�late blight

That's what David Letterman should call his show.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at August 29, 2015 01:30 PM (P6Jv8)

33 I think Y-not paid for it with runway modelling fees.....

I would like to see some pics.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 01:30 PM (0qASP)

34 I spy Crepe Myrtles

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 01:30 PM (PMlgt)

35 Maybe a sweet gum tree

Posted by: checkers at August 29, 2015 01:31 PM (PQlla)

36 That's a sycamore tree.

Posted by: Ronnie Sanders at August 29, 2015 01:31 PM (5mxOx)

37 >>>Can someone identify this tree and this seed or nut pod?

I'd hit that.

Posted by: Cheech and Chong at August 29, 2015 01:31 PM (P6Jv8)

38 It's a Sycamore

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 01:32 PM (PMlgt)

39 In suburban California you'd be selling your kids to pay for enough water to keep that grass green.

Posted by: JEM at August 29, 2015 01:32 PM (o+SC1)

40 Yeah, sure looks maple something.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:32 PM (3kBFI)

41 That is one gorgeous yard, Y-not! Perfect for late afternoon gin and tonics.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at August 29, 2015 01:33 PM (jR7Wy)

42 Sycamore's offer beautiful foliage and provide terrific shade, but the leaves are huge and tend to get moldy if your yard is moist. And, the branches are brittle and drop pretty easily.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 01:33 PM (PMlgt)

43 I had very little blossom end rot this year, even in the heirloom tomatoes. It was very dry and hot, so I did something right.
It was probably planting them in the plot where I had originally put the compost heap on where the old burn pile had been.

It started raining last night, finally. It brought down a lot of the plums that I now have to process, and I am thinking I am going to have to do a salvage pick on the rest of my tomatoes.

My compost heap squash are a mixed lot. I have things that look like acorn squash, delicata marked butternuts, and I swear I have a single zucchini.

Midsummer I decided to try an experiment, dumping the cats' waterbowl on the porch on a single spot in the yard everytime I refilled it. It worked. I have a hat sized green spot in my otherwise dead lawn.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 01:33 PM (3pRHP)

44 Do the owners know you're squatting while they're away?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at August 29, 2015 01:34 PM (jR7Wy)

45 You didn't build that.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 29, 2015 01:34 PM (P6Jv8)

46 Huh, sycamore. Wouldn't have guessed.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:35 PM (3kBFI)

47 No arborist, but the closest I can find for that tree is sweetgum.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 29, 2015 01:35 PM (YJmuy)

48 Definitely Sycamore. Messy tree.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 01:36 PM (rhjQp)

49 Yup Sycamore. Should be shedding leaves any minute now. Ours are the first to shed in the Fall.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:37 PM (9mTYi)

50 It's a Sycamore

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 01:32 PM (PMlgt)

I think NDH is the winner!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_occidentalis

Thank you!

[And thank you Y-not and KT for letting me post that]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2015 01:37 PM (Zu3d9)

51 Sycamore is the correct answer.

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 01:38 PM (ENe42)

52 I'll yield to the sycamore fans. Leaves are a closer match.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 29, 2015 01:38 PM (YJmuy)

53 oh, hey, we call those plane trees here. Probably because they are not native.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 01:38 PM (3pRHP)

54 Could it be a sweet gum? If so, watch out for the falling seed pods. The ones that don't bonk you on the head hurt like heck when you step on them.

Posted by: NavyMom at August 29, 2015 01:39 PM (Oelm8)

55 Untitled, 1965 by Robert Ryman

Polar bear eating vanilla ice cream in a blizzard.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 29, 2015 01:39 PM (W5DcG)

56 Oh, aren't we all 'igh and mighty with a gazebo! I bet you have a settee on the veranda, too.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 01:41 PM (sdi6R)

57
I think Y-not paid for it with runway modelling fees.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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I first read that as runaway models.
I'm like "Y-not is a pimp?!?"

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (ENe42)

58 Pretty sure those same columns were used at Barky's coronation.

Ducks

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (gCeSe)

59 Garden here is 2 zucchini I planted. They survived and have produced a few squash. Flower bed was not watered when we were gone end of July and was looking ratty. I decided to hope the annuals were far enough along to set seed for next year rather than trying to revive it so its really brown and dry now.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (iA/+T)

60
BTW, that Ryman piece sold for $581,000.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (9mTYi)

61 Y-not,
NICE!!!

KT,
My yield yesterday of Matt's cherry tomatoes. I put the dime there to show you how tiny they are.
http://tinypic.com/r/s1rbis/8

Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (xVgrA)

62 I have vitiligo. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Posted by: Polar bear michael jackson at August 29, 2015 01:44 PM (P6Jv8)

63 Since no one guessed sycamore yet, I'll go with that.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2015 01:45 PM (u5gzz)

64 It's sycamore.

Though my first guess was Sweet Gum.

I'm assuming it's like a sweet gum and grows very fast.

Sweet gum's a great tree if you have a male tree.

That's a female and if it's like the sweet gum those balls are really sticky and a huge mess to clean up.

Kill it! Kill it now!

Or not.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2015 01:45 PM (KUa85)

65 Pretty sure those same columns were used at Barky's coronation.

Ducks
Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet
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I wish. Those replaced some late 50's square steel tube supports that had rusted through. Those columns proved to be a giant PIA to get in place.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:45 PM (9mTYi)

66 Sycamore balls aren't hard and spiky like sweet gum.
They make great ammo for slingshot fights.
Or so I've heard...

http://www.pbase.com/hjsteed/image/55066141

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 01:46 PM (ENe42)

67 BTW, that Ryman piece sold for $581,000.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM (9mTYi)

And that bit of sculpture will be treasured until it is lost in a bathroom remodel because it cost so much to ever abandon.

WierdDave, you could use that as an example for explaining "Sunk Costs" in a future post.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 01:47 PM (3pRHP)

68 Here is my angel wing begonia. I'm not sure where I got the original cutting, my mom maybe. I've kept it or cuttings of it going for about 16 years. It always seems to come back from the root stock even if I forget to bring it in and it freezes. I haven't seen this variety for sale around here.
http://tinypic.com/r/2vm97j5/8

Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 01:47 PM (xVgrA)

69 Researching sycamores, I'm not really in sycamore country. I don't guess I've ever seen one and knew what it was.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:48 PM (3kBFI)

70 Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2015 01:45 PM (KUa85)

That's in my parents' yard. It was there when I was a kid, and I think it's about 60 feet tall.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2015 01:49 PM (Zu3d9)

71 Researching sycamores, I'm not really in sycamore country. I don't guess I've ever seen one and knew what it was.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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Ignorance is no excuse.
Book 'em Dano.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 01:50 PM (9mTYi)

72 Even Trump would think that lawn is YUUUGE.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at August 29, 2015 01:51 PM (P6Jv8)

73 Trees.

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 29, 2015 01:52 PM (MQEz6)

74 If I discover Bigfoot, do you think Trump will make Secretary of the Interior?

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 29, 2015 01:54 PM (MQEz6)

75 Wow, Y-not, I'm green with backyard envy! You are going to have so much fun gardening there!!

* * *
>>I dislike it when works of art are tiled like that

There's a movie that mocks the art world called "(untitled)" and one of the characters has an artsy "band" that performs but plays no music. Silly.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2015 01:54 PM (NOIQH)

76 They have facial recognition software. There shld be a site where you upload the pphoto and it identifies the plant.

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at August 29, 2015 01:55 PM (P6Jv8)

77 Polar bear eating vanilla ice cream in a blizzard.

Or a ghost milking a white cow in a snowstorm.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 01:56 PM (LUgeY)

78 "Ignorance is no excuse. "

Oh shit. I'm guilty of a lotta things then.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 01:57 PM (3kBFI)

79 Why don't you simply ASK that tree what kind of tree it identifies as, you bigot?

That's what Bahbwa Walters would do.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at August 29, 2015 01:57 PM (P6Jv8)

80 and in the no good deed category I had offered to take a family with no p/u let alone horse trailer to Garden of the Gods to trail ride with plan to overnight at KOA labor day sunday-monday. Well I didn't do research like I should have and it turns out that camping is a no go as everyplace is booked or requires health certificates or both. A long day with early start on Sunday should work but I'm being pestered with "how about going on friday evening another week "

I had to tell em flat out I would not do rush hour so unless the kids can skip school and we could leave by mid-morning on friday it was a no go. I don't want to be rude but I'm feeling like if they aren't willing to get up early/return late when I am offering to put myself out with a long day they can always just not go at all.

I feel a bit badly for making the camping part of the offer and not being able to deliver but the annoyance factor is overriding that now.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 29, 2015 01:57 PM (iA/+T)

81 Looks like a subgum tree to me

Posted by: JeanB at August 29, 2015 01:59 PM (EKyBx)

82 Oh that begonia is pretty Linda.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 29, 2015 02:01 PM (iA/+T)

83 I actually did see John Cage perform 4'33" once, when I was in college. No kidding. My life is complete for having experienced that.

I don't remember anyone opening for him, though.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 02:03 PM (sdi6R)

84 That tree is a London Plane Tree.

Posted by: Kevin at August 29, 2015 02:04 PM (J0Tnn)

85 has an artsy "band" that performs but plays no music. Silly.
Posted by: Lizzy
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John Cage is admired by the artsy set, and is paid to perform this in concert:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/d47jv2h

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:05 PM (9mTYi)

86 There's a sycamore at my old house.

Love hitting the dingleballs with lawnmower: 'Foof!' and out it spits, like a big brown mess of lint.

Oh, and the bark sloughs off. Some years a lot.

Oh, and the leaves (which don't compact when you try to stomp them into containers) tend to drop all through fall and winter, rather than come off cleanly over a week or two.

Yes, kill it. Kill it now.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:05 PM (rhjQp)

87 rickl - Thats four and half minutes that you're never going to get back.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:06 PM (9mTYi)

88 Oh, and the bark sloughs off. Some years a lot.

Oh, and the leaves (which don't compact when you try to stomp them into containers) tend to drop all through fall and winter, rather than come off cleanly over a week or two.

Yes, kill it. Kill it now.

***

They are beautiful trees but I never for a moment regretted the $600 I spent to have mine cut down.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 02:06 PM (PMlgt)

89 Tasmanian devil drinking Jack Daniels during an oil spill at midnight.

Posted by: Rachel Dolezal at August 29, 2015 02:07 PM (P6Jv8)

90 87 rickl - Thats four and half minutes that you're never going to get back.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:06 PM (9mTYi)

The best part is that the friend I was with started giggling, and I leaned over and whispered, "You think it's funny now? Wait until the end when everyone applauds."

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 02:09 PM (sdi6R)

91 "Yes, kill it. Kill it now. "

Yeah, not a maple. Sounds like a pain the arse.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:11 PM (3kBFI)

92 I need help! My pepper plants (both jap and sweet bell) are limp and dying. This hasn't happened to me before. I'm in S. TX and of course it's super hot. They're planted in composted soil, heavily mulched with newspaper and plain bark mulch mixed with some leftover black dyed mulch that we put in our front flower bed. Nothing else in the garden is suffering. Tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli, corn-all thriving. Any ideas?

Posted by: Abby at August 29, 2015 02:11 PM (8wu51)

93 That's a sycamore tree.
And they are messy trees. Leaves the size of small children and those little seed pods are soo much fun.

Nice shade and fairly strong, they seem to like moisture. The worst part is that, as they grow, they shed bark. Long life and a huge crown. I have a doozy in my backyard. They do not play well with swimming pools.

And beware of the ever present cicadas that like to hang out at the tops.

Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 02:11 PM (u49WF)

94 >>John Cage is admired by the artsy set, and is paid to perform this in concert:

*headslap*

Of course it's already been done!
Another character in that film does art that involves carcasses of cows suspended from the ceiling and he is killed when one falls - very similar to the artist who created the awful blue bronco sculpture at the Denver airport. He had been jerking around the city with delays and demands for more and more money, and then *thunk!* creation kills creator.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 29, 2015 02:11 PM (NOIQH)

95 NDH, the *only* reason I didn't have it removed? Shade at the SE corner.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:13 PM (rhjQp)

96 I have an idea on how to improve that painting. And the fence.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at August 29, 2015 02:13 PM (P6Jv8)

97 and then *thunk!* creation kills creator.
Posted by: Lizzy
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The cosmos has a twisted sense of humor.

Euell Gibbons dies of stomach cancer.

Jim Fixx has a heart attack while exercising.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:15 PM (9mTYi)

98 In Houston the Sheriff just finished a press conference and slammed all the rhetoric about 'black lives matter' with 'lives matter.'

Way to go Democrats like Al Sharpton, we are back to the 1960s and 'kill the pigs.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:16 PM (JgpFm)

99 I see the artiste was in his Buttered Toast Period.

I did a thesis on that at Bratmore.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:17 PM (MDgS8)

100 The cosmos has a twisted sense of humor.

Oh yeah, Mark Chapman shoots Lennon, rather Yoko Ono.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:17 PM (9mTYi)

101 "The cosmos has a twisted sense of humor. "

Abe Vigoda.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:17 PM (3kBFI)

102 Way to go Democrats like Al Sharpton,
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#blackliesmatter

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 02:18 PM (9mTYi)

103 #BlackLivesVote

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:19 PM (MDgS8)

104 Abe Vigoda.

Keith Richards.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 02:19 PM (LUgeY)

105 NDH, the *only* reason I didn't have it removed? Shade at the SE corner.

****

After I cut it down my mold allergies were considerably improved.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 02:19 PM (PMlgt)

106 "Keith Richards."

Touche.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:20 PM (3kBFI)

107 I was glad to see MSDNC relegated not so Sharpton to 1 hour on Sunday. Might watch one just for the laughs.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 02:20 PM (PfVjp)

108
92 I need help! My pepper plants (both jap and sweet bell) are limp and dying. This hasn't happened to me before. I'm in S. TX and of course it's super hot. They're planted in composted soil, heavily mulched with newspaper and plain bark mulch mixed with some leftover black dyed mulch that we put in our front flower bed. Nothing else in the garden is suffering. Tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli, corn-all thriving. Any ideas?
Posted by: Abby at August 29, 2015 02:11 PM (8wu51)

Shade them and spray them with water mist to induce evaporative cooling.

Also, loosen the mulch.

Advise worth what you paid for it.

Posted by: Positive Waves at August 29, 2015 02:20 PM (MQEz6)

109 Touche.

For every cigarette you smoke, God takes one hour of your life and gives it to KR.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 02:22 PM (LUgeY)

110 "Positive Waves"

What about the pretty colors?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:22 PM (3kBFI)

111 104 Abe Vigoda.

Keith Richards.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 02:19 PM (LUgeY)

Beat me to it.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 02:22 PM (sdi6R)

112 Sycamore trees drop piles of leaves and limbs die for no good reason but the woodpeckers love them so if you like those guys it's sort of worth it.

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 02:23 PM (sTarx)

113 The growing season around here could end in as little as 2 or 3 weeks. Many of the tomatoes are not going to ripen.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 02:24 PM (0qASP)

114 "For every cigarette you smoke, God takes one hour of your life and gives it to KR."

I see the error in my ways but now you're going to make me do math.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:24 PM (3kBFI)

115 98
Way to go Democrats like Al Sharpton, we are back to the 1960s and 'kill the pigs.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:16 PM (JgpFm)

The country is now being run by the very same people who shouted "kill the pigs" in the 60s.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 02:25 PM (sdi6R)

116

And what Barky did for gun sales, the BLM people will actually end up bringing back a resurgence in the Klan.

Job security I suppose.

Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 02:25 PM (u49WF)

117 http://lib.oh.us/tree/fact%20pages/sweetgum/sweetgum.html

sweet gum probably. Thanks for abandoning us Nor Cali folk.

.. really best wishes in your new home.

Posted by: ama at August 29, 2015 02:25 PM (b5w73)

118 They incite a race war so people will demand the government DO something and they can install their socialist paradise.

The Charles Manson gambit.

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 02:27 PM (sTarx)

119 Nice yard,too bad it is not, mine. Or maybe not too much to mow. Which I did today. And AR treasurer got 2.5 years for perjury. Too bad her name was not Clinton. She would have got 5 years probation.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 29, 2015 02:27 PM (t2KH5)

120 I have a white birch in the yard. What a messy, smeely, pos.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 29, 2015 02:28 PM (ucDmr)

121 #BlackHolesAntiMatter

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at August 29, 2015 02:28 PM (P6Jv8)

122 The Charles Manson-Joker gambit. Some people just want the world to burn down. Others see opportunity by burning the world down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:29 PM (JgpFm)

123 Vic! good to see your nic again.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 29, 2015 02:29 PM (iA/+T)

124 118- Hmm, I heard on a radio news break this week that one of his followers is up for parole, again. I can't believe they are still sucking up good air.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 02:30 PM (PfVjp)

125 D'ja ever notice how time seems to stand still when you're in a black hole?

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:30 PM (MDgS8)

126 Yo, Vic! Como esta? How's the porch rocker holding up?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 02:31 PM (LUgeY)

127 "D'ja ever notice how time seems to stand still when you're in a black hole?"

That's sorta the point. They're the same thing.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:31 PM (3kBFI)

128 or London planetree- need to see the trunk and the bark.

Posted by: ama at August 29, 2015 02:32 PM (b5w73)

129
Don't get me wrong - I love trees. But it seems there really aren't many that provide the plus side without leaving tons of crap behind.
I can't seem to find the "perfect" tree to plant in my front yard.

Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 02:32 PM (u49WF)

130 The Charles Manson-Joker gambit. Some people just want the world to burn down. Others see opportunity by burning the world down.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:29 PM (JgpFm)

I think they are trying to be martyrs to try to find some value from their worthless, pointless lives.

That's the sort of thinking you do when you can't get your head free of various types of drugs and are fed a diet of bigotry and victimization.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 02:33 PM (3pRHP)

131 D'ja ever notice how time seems to stand still when you're in a black hole?

****

No kidding! Saturday nights with Michelle seem interminable!

Posted by: Barack H Obama at August 29, 2015 02:33 PM (PMlgt)

132 "Others see opportunity by burning the world down."

I don't see any opportunity in burning the world down. Who's gonna work at McDonald's or Kroger?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:34 PM (3kBFI)

133 What the heck? Michigan might have a sniper? Geez.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:34 PM (JgpFm)

134
London planetree- need to see the trunk and the bark.
Posted by: ama at August 29, 2015 02:32 PM (b5w73)

I swear on the 100 footer in my backyard, it's a sycamore.

Posted by: GBruno at August 29, 2015 02:34 PM (u49WF)

135 Don't get me wrong - I love trees. But it seems there really aren't many that provide the plus side without leaving tons of crap behind.
I can't seem to find the "perfect" tree to plant in my front yard.

***

I adored the Maple I had in my front yard a few years ago although even it had a downside: Shallow roots which can uproot paving.

Posted by: Barack H Obama at August 29, 2015 02:34 PM (PMlgt)

136 Vic you da man, how are things in SC?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 29, 2015 02:35 PM (ucDmr)

137 126
Yo, Vic! Como esta? How's the porch rocker holding up?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 02:31 PM (LUgeY)

Holding up good. I exercised it yesterday after I got back from GA.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 29, 2015 02:37 PM (t2KH5)

138
For every cigarette you smoke, God takes one hour of your life and gives it to KR.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
......................
Yeah, but they're the last hours, so...

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 02:38 PM (ENe42)

139 Oh great, now we're getting the "high winds" they warned about.

Dust clouds blowing down the street and can't see to the corner. Couple of good sized branches down already (Elm, another cursed tree).

Crap. Where's the effing RAIN? Wait... maybe we don't want that just yet. Of course, that's what'll make it happen. FML

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:38 PM (rhjQp)

140 There was an old apple that was taken down before I bought the house and is throwing suckers up from the roots. The last couple of springs I have been trying to graft gravenstein onto it, and thought I was doing something wrong.

When I cleared out the dead grass from around it last week I found that two of the grafts had taken. One of them I think was the own-graft I did to see if the problem was my technique, but I don't know which one it was. I may have to do more grafting.

Qualified success.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 02:39 PM (3pRHP)

141 "Oh great, now we're getting the "high winds" they warned about. "

Didn't know you were in FA, JeanQ. Now I do.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:40 PM (3kBFI)

142 So any Cantore sightings instead of Erika?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 02:40 PM (JgpFm)

143 138: In the nursing home around here they always talk about the poor drooling old people that can't feed themselves or take care of bodily functions with "His heart still good though". Eff that.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 29, 2015 02:40 PM (ucDmr)

144 Don't get me wrong - I love trees. But it seems there really aren't many that provide the plus side without leaving tons of crap behind.
I can't seem to find the "perfect" tree to plant in my front yard.

I have a honey locust in the front yard I love. Small leaves, provides lots of morning shade. Low maintenance. I do need to get some branches cut. It seems to be the last to lose leaves in the fall.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 02:41 PM (PfVjp)

145 Sweet, Kindltot! Success in grafting is, like, Cosmic.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:42 PM (rhjQp)

146 You can't escape from a black hole. Hence the phrase "once you go black, you never go back".

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at August 29, 2015 02:42 PM (P6Jv8)

147 Some kind of Maple tree I think.Might be a weasel.

Posted by: steevy at August 29, 2015 02:42 PM (sPO3u)

148 Ricardo Kill... "FA"? ?

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:43 PM (rhjQp)

149 Trees are beautiful in the fall. As long as they're somebody elses.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at August 29, 2015 02:43 PM (ucDmr)

150 The perfect tree is a native pecan. Big, beautiful and something to eat.

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 02:44 PM (sTarx)

151 Fcking kidding me with that all white painting. Not only did the 60's counterculture want to destroy America, they wanted to destroy art.

Posted by: Old Hob at August 29, 2015 02:44 PM (NBhge)

152 I have a tree in my front yard that I've seen variously called a "red birch", "clump birch" and "river birch".

Lord, that tree is messy. It sheds worse than my cats. Whenever I mow the lawn, I have to walk around the yard first picking up twigs that have fallen. It also starts shedding leaves in August. I don't think it's diseased, though, because it's still full of healthy-looking green leaves. But my yard already looks like fall.

It has roots that grow sideways across the yard, one of which is tunneling under the driveway, causing it to lift and crack.

I can't quite bring myself to have it cut down, because the shade helps keep the front yard grass from growing too fast. So that's a plus.

Also, I planted it myself as a seedling about 25 years ago, and it's enormous now. I'm guessing it's about 50' tall. So it's kind of my child in a way, and it's done good.

I got it when I sent money to the National Arbor Day Foundation around 1990 or so. They sent me a package of 10 seedlings of different kinds of trees. They were about the size of pipe cleaners without the fuzz. I planted that one in the front yard, and a dogwood by the sidewalk. I planted another kind in the back yard that didn't take, and gave the rest to friends.

(Appropriately enough, the dogwood by the sidewalk is very, very popular with the dogs in the neighborhood as their humans walk them.)

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 02:45 PM (sdi6R)

153 36

Bingo

Posted by: franksalterego at August 29, 2015 02:48 PM (Fh+WR)

154 "Ricardo Kill... "FA"? ?"

Oh, Florida.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:49 PM (3kBFI)

155 For me, redbuds are the most useless ornamental tree ever. They will break limbs off on a dead calm day for no apparent reason. As bad as hackberries. Stihl them, I say.

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at August 29, 2015 02:50 PM (sTarx)

156 Should be FL. Apologies.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:51 PM (3kBFI)

157 If I get a sex change, I won't even have to change my name.

Posted by: Joyce Kilmer at August 29, 2015 02:51 PM (P6Jv8)

158 Knoxville TN is Dogwoodville.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:51 PM (MDgS8)

159 RK, I'm *almost* as far away as a person can get from Florida, yet still be within the lower 48.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:51 PM (rhjQp)

160 That's why the Vols mascot is a dog.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:52 PM (MDgS8)

161 Our area is so tough on trees that the russian olives in our yard are appreciated. The birds like them in winter too. They don't eat the fruit when other stuff is available but it gets them through the snow cover days. We have some elms but half of them died this spring. It was tough weather, mild all winter and warm early and then 2 or 3 late hard freezes.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 29, 2015 02:52 PM (iA/+T)

162 In case anyone was curious about that white painted piece of idiocy at the top - Sotheby's paid about 20 million for one of that guy's white paintings.

Doomed.

Posted by: Old Hob at August 29, 2015 02:52 PM (NBhge)

163 RK, I'm *almost* as far away as a person can get from Florida, yet still be within the lower 48.

It's safer that way.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:52 PM (MDgS8)

164 We're simply burning down or choking on smoke up here... coupled with high wind.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:53 PM (rhjQp)

165 Seeing Harry Nilsson in the sidebar reminded me of his soundtrack to the trip-a-delic kiddie flick "The Point" -- back when every cartoon was a Peter Max painting come to life and on prime time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfKteUBa_s

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at August 29, 2015 02:53 PM (jR7Wy)

166 In case anyone was curious about that white painted piece of idiocy at the top - Sotheby's paid about 20 million for one of that guy's white paintings.

Hey....sheep are born to be fleeced. Dude had a nice racket.

I'm jealous.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 02:54 PM (MDgS8)

167 >>>Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 29, 2015 02:27 PM (t2KH5)

That's my first Vic sighting in ever so long. Nice to have you back!

Posted by: m at August 29, 2015 02:55 PM (ELEPX)

168 Forest fires are not as newsworthy as the Anniversary Storm the MFM wants to ~~celebrate~~ cover.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:55 PM (rhjQp)

169 " RK, I'm *almost* as far away as a person can get from Florida, yet still be within the lower 48."

Oh shit. I farked up. Thought you were in Florida. Where at?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:56 PM (3kBFI)

170 Idaho.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 02:57 PM (rhjQp)

171 You can't escape from a black hole. Hence the phrase "once you go black, you never go back".
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

But you end up in a kinder gentler universe.

Posted by: Stephen Hawkwind at August 29, 2015 02:58 PM (W5DcG)

172 My deciduous trees are mostly Elm. I don't care for them, but sometimes you have to plant the only thing that will grow.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 02:58 PM (0qASP)

173 "Idaho."

Where in?

I got family in Idaho.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 02:58 PM (3kBFI)

174 JeanQ, we are getting that smoke too. On some days last week you could barely see the mountains. Reminded me of LA in the seventies. Thick as hell. Thankfully we got some rain this week that blew it out of the valley. Smoke will probably creep back into the valley this week. Are you safe from the fires?

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 02:58 PM (PfVjp)

175
Anyone got $4 million dollars I can borrow?
I MUST HAVE THAT PAINTING!!!!11!1!!1!!

Posted by: MAx at August 29, 2015 02:59 PM (LAliD)

176 >>>Fcking kidding me with that all white painting. Not only did the 60's
counterculture want to destroy America, they wanted to destroy art.<<<

But first, they had to destroy their brains with pharmaceuticals and Marxism.

Posted by: Fritz at August 29, 2015 02:59 PM (3tjn4)

177 The Larch?

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:00 PM (MDgS8)

178 Idaho, Florida.....close enough.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:01 PM (MDgS8)

179 In case anyone was curious about that white painted piece of idiocy at the top - Sotheby's paid about 20 million for one of that guy's white paintings.

Doomed.
Posted by: Old Hob at August 29, 2015 02:52 PM (NBhge)

Reminds me of an old Bulwinkle and Rocky episode. Boris Badinoff was trying to steal some "old masters" paintings, and he whitewashed them first, had them stashed in a stack of Bulwinkle's paintings (with titles like Polar Bear in a Snowstorm Eating a Sandwich).

I can't remember the whole plot, but believe me when I say Bulwinkle's paintings are no more or less authentic than most of the crep that passes for art these days.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2015 03:01 PM (Dj0WE)

180 We're safe from the fires here, I'm 90percent sure. In a river valley, though, so the smoke just lays in and has been thick for a couple weeks now.

Prefer not to say my city.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:01 PM (rhjQp)

181 Anyone got $4 million dollars I can borrow?
I MUST HAVE THAT PAINTING!!!!11!1!!1!!

I paint THIS!!

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:02 PM (MDgS8)

182 " Idaho, Florida.....close enough."

Far flung places. Look sorta alike, upside down.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:02 PM (3kBFI)

183 Abby,
I'm in SW Austin. My peppers will droop in the heat of the day but perk up as it cools off in the evening. If you can't put a shade cloth over them, make sure you water them very heavily in the morning. I water until it puddles, let it soak in then water again. Some of my veggies I have to water in the morning and evening to keep them going.

Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 03:04 PM (xVgrA)

184 Prefer not to say my city.

That's ok. We all know it's Boise.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:04 PM (MDgS8)

185 No worries JeanQ. Just wondered the area. I also live in a river valley. Makes for shitty inversions in the winter.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (PfVjp)

186 Look sorta alike, upside down

Hmm, whaddaya know, they do!

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (rhjQp)

187 My little tomato bush in the pot is putting out tons of 'maters this year. I don't even know why, the two previous attempts were miserable. Its a good year for them, or something. At least two dozen of tomatoes, although they aren't the big ones. Very sweet, and very read.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (39g3+)

188 Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2015 03:01 PM (Dj0WE)

Sample jokes:

Rocky: I can't see the sandwich.

Bulwinkle: That's because the polar bear ate it.

Rocky: But I can't see the polar bear either.

Bulwinkle: Well you can't expect him to stick around after he finishes his sandwich.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (Dj0WE)

189 *waves to All Hail Eris*

Doing research for sequel. And working out the McGuffin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (JgpFm)

190 Boise-- yep, the *only* city in Idaho. Lol.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (rhjQp)

191 "That's ok. We all know it's Boise."

She could be anywhere. But we all know she's in the tater bizness.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:06 PM (3kBFI)

192 Anyone got $4 million dollars I can borrow?
I MUST HAVE THAT PAINTING!!!!11!1!!1!!>>>

Take a snagit and send it to these guys.

http://carwraps.net/

Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 03:07 PM (nAv2M)

193 I never met a tater I didn't like.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:07 PM (MDgS8)

194 Well if you win the $71 million cash Powerball jackpot tonight, then you too can afford that piece of 'art' and build a house with white walls just so you can lose track of where the piece is hung.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:07 PM (JgpFm)

195 No, there's Idaho Falls. Pocatello. Sun Valley. CDA.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:08 PM (3kBFI)

196 Doing research for sequel. And working out the McGuffin.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:05 PM (JgpFm)
---
Hi Anna. Did you find any tin cans floating around the Pacific?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at August 29, 2015 03:08 PM (jR7Wy)

197 Oh plenty in the Pacific as US policy focused upon Japan. But none for any show the flag cruise in the Med for my time period. Even the cruisers were scarce unless you are talking about 1936 when one of the new Treaty cruisers was part of an International contingent that included Graf Spee off shore of Spain during that country's Civil War.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:11 PM (JgpFm)

198 175
Anyone got $4 million dollars I can borrow?
I MUST HAVE THAT PAINTING!!!!11!1!!1!!
Posted by: MAx at August 29, 2015 02:59 PM (LAliD)

I have some leftover white ceiling paint. You're welcome to that, then you can paint your own painting.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 03:12 PM (sdi6R)

199 Wow, the wind is eerily calm now.

What a mess in the yard! Thankfully, no branches fell on the house.

We can haz teh rainz nao?

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:14 PM (rhjQp)

200 Program note:

High Plains Drifter coming up on AMC.

Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 03:15 PM (vsbNu)

201 I guess JeanQ ran away.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:17 PM (3kBFI)

202 Wow! a Gardening Thread from the road! Beautiful photos. People seem to really love sycamores. Heh.

Sycamores are Plane Trees. The London Plane is one cultivar. They need to be planted in the right place and yes, they drop big, leathery leaves over a long period in winter. The seed balls are a pain, but they are not sticky. Even here in our hot, fairly dry valley they can look sick from fungal infestations. They are wind-pollinated, so people can become allergic to the pollen.

On the positive side, they grow fast and provide great shade. They host the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. The wiki does not mention this, but mentions the Setaceous Hebrew Character Moth.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:18 PM (qahv/)

203 Btw, Y-not, your new place looks awesome!

What is that lovely pink flower?

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:18 PM (rhjQp)

204 She didn't like being slagged in with the Boise mob.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:18 PM (MDgS8)

205 Just looked, and Patton is on TCM at the top of the hour.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:18 PM (PfVjp)

206 JeanQ right there.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:19 PM (3kBFI)

207 Hey logprof, bought your Ferrari yet with the royalties? The Matchbox one.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:20 PM (JgpFm)

208 I wondered what that bush with the pink flowers is too.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:21 PM (PfVjp)

209 Got " The Hanging Tree" here.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:21 PM (3kBFI)

210 "Slagged in with the Boise mob" LOL!!

That's where the liberal cesspool is growing, to be sure...

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:21 PM (rhjQp)

211 Man pre-season football is such a tease.

Your eyes say "hay!!!, Football!!!"

But your brain is like eeeshh......

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:21 PM (MDgS8)

212 lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 01:43 PM

The Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes look great. They are tiny indeed. Do they taste good?

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:22 PM (qahv/)

213 I've decided I want a Mexican petunia. It blooms in the morning and by late afternoon, all the blooms fall off the bush and it does the same thing all over again the next day. My in laws in Houston have one in their back yard and it's pretty cool.
Living in Colorado, the only way I can do it is as a potted plant that I would have to bring in the house over the winter.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 29, 2015 03:23 PM (9iR5/)

214 Hey folks! Sorry for the O/T but:

It's that time of year again, and I've been contemplating a reprise of last year's SW Ohio MoMe; tentatively looking at Saturday evening, October 17. I've also been exploring other venues in the same general area as last year's (didn't care for the one-long-table setup).

So:

Any takers?

Interested parties let me know: swohmome @ mail.com (no spaces).

Posted by: speedster1 at August 29, 2015 03:23 PM (1brdf)

215 I think I pissed off Jean Q.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:23 PM (3kBFI)

216 That's ok. We all know it's Boise.
Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:04 PM (MDgS

The problem with Boise is that it is far to similar to Ontario.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 03:23 PM (3pRHP)

217 Hey folks! Sorry for the O/T but:

It's that time of year again, and I've been contemplating a reprise of last year's SW Ohio MoMe; tentatively looking at Saturday evening, October 17. I've also been exploring other venues in the same general area as last year's (didn't care for the one-long-table setup).

So:

Any takers?

Interested parties let me know: swohmome @ mail.com (no spaces).

***

You might want to drop this in the Yahoo thread as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 03:25 PM (PMlgt)

218 Didn't read all the comments yet. Did someone already say gum tree? Because that's definitely a "gumball," as I always liked to call it.

Posted by: April *YSV2016* at August 29, 2015 03:25 PM (FjIA5)

219 Man pre-season football is such a tease.

Kollidge footsball starts next Saturday when my Beloved Tide open against the Wisconsin Badgers. Anticipation is high. For me. B'Gal is somewhat less enthused.

Watching an SEC Network coach's thingy right now with Mark Richt, Hugh Freeze, Les Miles and Saint Nick.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 03:26 PM (LUgeY)

220 "The problem with Boise is that it is far to similar to Ontario."

I thought Bosie was more was far more cosmopolitan than that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:26 PM (3kBFI)

221 208
I wondered what that bush with the pink flowers is too.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:21 PM (PfVjp)

crape myrtle

Posted by: BignJames at August 29, 2015 03:27 PM (HtUkt)

222 High Plains Drifter coming up on AMC.
Posted by: logprof
.....................
One step ahead of ya.
And I just made my first bourbon & ginger in a week.
But, I should be outside working...

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 03:27 PM (ENe42)

223 I like to mix petunia, 'millionbells' and (decorative hybrid) sweet potato vines for patio planters. Simple and pretty.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:28 PM (rhjQp)

224 I am in chemical warfare mode on the vines and weeds (some are poison oak) that have gone wild in my unattended neglected landscaping.

Kill! Kill! Faster! Faster!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 29, 2015 03:28 PM (JO9+V)

225 I thought Bosie was more was far more cosmopolitan than that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:26 PM (3kBFI)

Weather-wise.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 03:29 PM (3pRHP)

226 Ronster,

One Cabbage butterfly can lay lots of eggs. The Sulphur Butterflies are similar in their tendency to occur in large numbers, but near plants in the legume family. They are pretty, but check your plants. You may need some Bt.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:29 PM (qahv/)

227 Kindltot,

You never know what kind of mutants you will get from squash plants in the compost heap.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:30 PM (qahv/)

228 No, RK, I'm not pissed off. Just been going between computer and window, looking at the mess in the yard, wondering if it's safe yet to venture out there. Still kinda smokey, and my sinuses are just thrashed.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:30 PM (rhjQp)

229 Can't wait for Elbow Season to begin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 03:30 PM (LUgeY)

230 What are we fighting about now? Boise? Natural Light?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:32 PM (3kBFI)

231 207 Hey logprof, bought your Ferrari yet with the royalties? The Matchbox one.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:20 PM (JgpFm)

--Yeah, can't afford the Hot Wheels version yet.

Kollidge footsball starts next Saturday when my Beloved Tide open against the Wisconsin Badgers. Anticipation is high. For me. B'Gal is somewhat less enthused.

Watching an SEC Network coach's thingy right now with Mark Richt, Hugh Freeze, Les Miles and Saint Nick.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 03:26 PM (LUgeY)

--Actually starts Thursday. I think both Michigan-Utah and Ohio State-Virginia Tech are that day.

Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 03:32 PM (vsbNu)

232 I took cuttings of the sweet potato vines last night, so I can keep em going indoors this winter and not have to pay a fortune to fill planters next spring.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:33 PM (rhjQp)

233 "No, RK, I'm not pissed off. Just been going between computer and window,"

Where you live in ID? Generally?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:33 PM (3kBFI)

234 No book thread? I hope Oregonmuse wasn't caught in a forest fire. Or banned.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 29, 2015 03:34 PM (39g3+)

235 Near the middle.

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:34 PM (rhjQp)

236 --Actually starts Thursday. I think both Michigan-Utah and Ohio State-Virginia Tech are that day.

I'll probably be watching those. However, for a dyed-in-the-wool Alabama fan like me (cut me and I bleed crimson!), the season doesn't start until we play.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 03:34 PM (LUgeY)

237 Thanks BigNJames. Looks like I could plant it here but it might be dicey. Maybe in the spring. It really is a lovely plant.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:35 PM (PfVjp)

238 "Near the middle."

Awesome answer.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:36 PM (3kBFI)

239 KT, thanks. What is Bt? Must be that bacterium something.

Posted by: Ronster at August 29, 2015 03:36 PM (0qASP)

240 229 Can't wait for Elbow Season to begin.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 03:30 PM (LUgeY)

While there are no cheerleaders in baseball, many baseball teams have "ball girls" who retrieve foul balls that are out of play. How come we never see them featured on threads?

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 03:37 PM (sdi6R)

241 Sunday is book thread day.

Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 03:38 PM (ENe42)

242 From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica:

ALIENIST (Lat. alienus, that which belongs to another, i.e. is external to one's self), one who specializes in the study of mental diseases, which are often included in the generic name "Alienation." (See INSANITY.)

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:39 PM (JgpFm)

243 The compost heap generally only grows worms and weeds. I used to bury the volunteer squash or dig it over in mid summer, but it gives me an excuse to not do that.
I run two compost heaps, one is the second year for "finishing" to kill off the weed seeds, and this year I planted leggy potatoes in it.

My compost heap went all potatoes this year.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 03:40 PM (3pRHP)

244 Sunday is book thread day.

I'm reading Gateway. Frederick Pohl.

I like it.

Posted by: eleven at August 29, 2015 03:40 PM (MDgS8)

245 Lindafell @68

The begonia is striking. People might be able to order a similar one from Logee's Greenhouse.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:41 PM (qahv/)

246 Posted by: Chi at August 29, 2015 03:38 PM (ENe42)

To be fair, a couple of weeks ago I overslept and woke up in a panic thinking it was Sunday and I'd missed the book thread. Only when I didn't find it did I realize it was Saturday!

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at August 29, 2015 03:41 PM (iuQS7)

247 It took the desperate or the suicidal to go to Gateway and ride the Heechee ships to their unknown destinations - would the ship take you to a place of untold riches or to your death?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:42 PM (JgpFm)

248 "Near the middle."

Good talk, JeneQ. Fun.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 29, 2015 03:43 PM (3kBFI)

249 sweetgum tree

Posted by: Denise Wolfsberger at August 29, 2015 03:43 PM (PVBzL)

250 Abby@92

Something in the soil could be making your peppers wilt. Maybe your other veggies are not susceptible to whatever it might be.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:45 PM (qahv/)

251 I hope those busy nights are now behind you Elisabeth with book put to bed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:46 PM (JgpFm)

252 sweetgum tree

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Bzzzt!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 03:47 PM (PMlgt)

253 Kindltot,

Congrats on your apple grafting experience. I have heard that labeling grafts immediately is a good practice.

I don't think Gravenstein is self-pollinating and it may be one that doesn't pollinate other apples.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:52 PM (qahv/)

254 Anna, yes and no--on both book and busyness. Just this morning I discovered a missing word, and this close to release, KDP won't let me upload the change.

And school keeps me plenty busy, though I think I'm almost to a point where I can get ahead of the game instead of playing catchup. But then, of course, I'll have to start finding freelance projects again....

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at August 29, 2015 03:53 PM (iuQS7)

255 Is it Sweetgum that turns almost a rainbow of color in Fall?

There's a row of *some kinda tree* that I drive past, but can't get close enough to correctly identify, that does this... they are bright, stunning colors!

Posted by: JeanQ Flyover at August 29, 2015 03:53 PM (rhjQp)

256 Yeah, I'm sure Eva Longoria eats Domino's on the couch and watches TV.

Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 03:53 PM (vsbNu)

257 Erm, that painting is a forgery. Belive me. I'm an expert.

Posted by: Art Critic at August 29, 2015 03:56 PM (P6Jv8)

258 247 NDH

Oooh - great idea - Thank you!

(Now have to go dig my log-in info up)

Posted by: speedster1 at August 29, 2015 03:57 PM (1brdf)

259
Have small compost boxes, one for everyday dumping and the second filled with the bottom half of the first when it gets pretty broken down.

Not sure if it was the compost, but the tomatoes in 15-gal pots this year were gigantic, much bigger than normal. Grown from seeds saved from last year. And jungle-like, then ravaged by something just after fruit had set - not a fungus (sprayed with copper against that), not sure. Devastated the greenery, but still have gotten many pounds of yield (all cherry and grape style) anyway.

Plan to use the next few months' compost, when it's done, to continue enriching a small plot we use for lettuce/greens (really nice, but as the nursery guy warned me, it's far too hot here in summer/early fall, got some more seedlings and they bolted within 2 weeks despite being kept wet), to enrich a few flower sections, and especially to build the soil for a raised bed (maybe 8 X 5) I will get to once ..... I've had an irrigation guy help me divert/pull up/mothball some of the drip system on the property, planted the second lemon tree (St. Theresa) and blood organge tree, and planted succulent (sinicio) cuttings down the bank, inside and outside the property fence.

One great thing about the composting is that our trash, already not very voluminous, is now even smaller, and dry. Nice hot having all the veggie and esp. melon cuttings in the trash during the summer heat.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 03:57 PM (QDnY+)

260 "I have a honey locust in the front yard I love. Small leaves, provides lots of morning shade. Low maintenance. I do need to get some branches cut. It seems to be the last to lose leaves in the fall.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 02:41 PM"

No. Save yourself. Do not plant a honey locust or you will regret it for the rest of your life. Yes, they survive a lot of abuse, which is why they are planted all up and down the street my business is located on. But come fall those little leaves are the spawn of Satan! Even on dry days, they stick to people's shoes and invade my store. They get into every nook and cranny. I even find them on the tops of 6' shelves! And they are a menace to society (and my insurance)! Walking over a couple days' worth of them is like walking on wet tiling. Plus the interior branches die and drop like rocks at the slightest hint of a breeze.

Posted by: catlady at August 29, 2015 03:57 PM (bn5b8)

261 The "sycamore" tree is a sweetgum tree altered to loik like a sycamore. You people are so gullible.

Posted by: Art Critic at August 29, 2015 03:57 PM (P6Jv8)

262 OT, I have always bought used cars/trucks by just looking around town. I will need to replace my current vehicle in the spring. Can anyone recommend a site I could do some research on a Chrysler 300?

I didn't find carfax has enough comparison details.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 03:58 PM (PfVjp)

263 A missing word? Oh dear I hope not the last word on the last page that reveals who the killer is.

Had to stop myself working on dead tree version. Already 'fixed' two things in that manuscript while slapping my hands from the keyboard to fix something I overlooked in the Epilogue.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 03:59 PM (JgpFm)

264 Obviously your mileage varies, catlady.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:01 PM (PfVjp)

265 Ronster @239:

Bt is Bacillus thuringiensis. It kills only caterpillars. A different strain is used to kill mosquito larvae.

Thuricide is a liquid product for caterpillar cotrol. Works best when they are little. There are also powders, but I don't recall their names right now.

Organic-approved if that matters to you.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 04:05 PM (qahv/)

266
Still searching for a tree for the front yard. Need to fill an empty corner that's pretty tall, created by a 90-degree angle in the house - it just looks empty and wrong. Pretty obssessive now about every tree or thing I plant producing fruit or herbs or something for the kitchen, as far as possible.

Citrus is too lolly-pop (though you can shape them pretty much as desired). Fig would be perfect - but roots. Location is close to foundation, so fig family is a no-go (could try the bio-barrier,walloff the roots, but would always have to worry about a failuredeveloping).Stone-fruit is doable around here (just outside marine/coastal influence zoneof SoCal), but again, lolly-pop shapes.

Haven't come across any non-lolly-pop fruit tree ideas aside from fig. Olive can also be assymmetric, I think, but not sure about roots. Are there dwarf olive?

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:05 PM (QDnY+)

267 @ lindafell, I'll try shading them. They are in full sun. I'm watering them about like your saying. I actually thought I might be overdoing it a bit, but the leaves aren't yellowing just wilting.

@ KT, that's what I was thinking, I just don't know how to correct the problem. It's frustrating.

Thanks yall!

Posted by: Abby at August 29, 2015 04:06 PM (8wu51)

268 256 She gets tired after making me sammiches all day

Posted by: MAx at August 29, 2015 04:06 PM (LAliD)

269 *time to dive back into the writing*

Have a great day everyone.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2015 04:06 PM (JgpFm)

270 Didn't read the whole thread - any flame wars? Kinda think it would be cool to have a nasty flame-war on a gardening thread. Just to sort of keep people in line, keep their instincts sharp.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:07 PM (QDnY+)

271 Haven't come across any non-lolly-pop fruit tree ideas aside from fig. Olive can also be assymmetric, I think, but not sure about roots. Are there dwarf olive?

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Fig tree?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 04:07 PM (PMlgt)

272 Now if you'll excuse me, I have a date with a really hot chick named Cait Jenner. Hope she'll let me eat her out, I love pussy.

Posted by: Art Critic at August 29, 2015 04:07 PM (P6Jv8)

273 Dangit! You said "fig" right there in the comment I copied and pasted yet I didn't even see it until now.

Carry on.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 04:08 PM (PMlgt)

274 I don't know what kind it was, but my grandparents had a pear tree that wasn't "lolli-poppy"

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 29, 2015 04:09 PM (PMlgt)

275 LOL, Anna! No, not that bad, just a verb in a parenthetical--some readers probably won't even notice. But still.

Yeah, does sound like it's time to give it a rest and come back to it in a few days. Sorted out a McGuffin for the sequel yet?

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at August 29, 2015 04:09 PM (iuQS7)

276
That's OK, NDH, happens to me all the time.

I like the idea of fig, but those roots. Someone also said they can attract wasps. Have a friend with one but he lives where you can smell the ocean, so not an apples-apples comparison, so to speak.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:10 PM (QDnY+)

277 256 Yeah, I'm sure Eva Longoria eats Domino's on the couch and watches TV.
Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 03:53 PM (vsbNu)

I don't have cable TV any more, but she can eat Domino's on my couch any time.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 04:11 PM (sdi6R)

278 The bush with pink flowers is a crepe myrtle.

Posted by: Lex at August 29, 2015 04:12 PM (FBjP7)

279 OT, I have always bought used cars/trucks by just looking around town. I
will need to replace my current vehicle in the spring. Can anyone
recommend a site I could do some research on a Chrysler 300?

I didn't find carfax has enough comparison details.>>>

This may sound stupid. But if you Google, Bing... Search any newer car this way you will find their big scary faults.

Chrysler 300 Transmission
Chrysler 300 Engine
Chrysler 300 Brakes
Chrysler 300 Electronics

Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:15 PM (nAv2M)

280 The bush with pink flowers is a crepe myrtle.

I had a friend with one planted just outside her front door. Didn't know just how much they shed. It was in partial shade, so maybe that had something to do with it.

They're everywhere down here. Real pretty colors.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 29, 2015 04:15 PM (LUgeY)

281 Yes Alabama has awesome Crepe Myrtles.

Posted by: Lex at August 29, 2015 04:19 PM (FBjP7)

282 rhomboid @ 266

Do you know your Sunset Zone? What exposure would it have? Are there walls to the north, west, etc? Full sun?

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 04:19 PM (qahv/)

283 I should probably add that Eva Longoria is a raging leftard.

Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 04:20 PM (vsbNu)

284 Willy J. Thanks. Maybe I will just keep the one I have. I hate car shopping. Something you just have to do in person. I have 230K miles on my '96 Yukon. I love it but have a feeling it's going to start costing tons of money. Had to replace the radiator 2 weeks ago.

Posted by: Infidel at August 29, 2015 04:20 PM (PfVjp)

285 Nood

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at August 29, 2015 04:23 PM (gCeSe)

286 279 search idea. I forgot to include the more hits you get the more you need to worry. Take the same search from a carfax car that seems good and one that doesn't. then replace that car name for the one you are interested in and compare hits and horror stories. The worst cars will have the most hits.

Posted by: Willy J at August 29, 2015 04:23 PM (nAv2M)

287 283 I should probably add that Eva Longoria is a raging leftard.
Posted by: logprof, now hawking on Kindle at August 29, 2015 04:20 PM (vsbNu)

Yeah, I know. (sigh)

I still think that Eva and Evan Longoria should have been twins, with names that close together.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/L/Plonge001.htm

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 04:24 PM (sdi6R)

288 I love it but have a feeling it's going to start costing tons of money.
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Could be worse, in Venezuela, it would cost 20 metric tons of money.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 29, 2015 04:24 PM (9mTYi)

289 270 Didn't read the whole thread - any flame wars? Kinda think it would be cool to have a nasty flame-war on a gardening thread. Just to sort of keep people in line, keep their instincts sharp.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:07 PM (QDnY+)

I bet all your trees have butt rot and your corn has smut.

Ok, I was never very good at flame wars. I only learned what butt rot is last week, so I'm grabbing the chance to use the term.

Posted by: stace at August 29, 2015 04:26 PM (CoX6k)

290 Bt = bacillus Thuringiensis.

Posted by: Grandma Mimi at August 29, 2015 04:33 PM (u5LFV)

291
stace, is butt rot encompassed by the term "butt stuff"?

KT - zone 23/24, located right on a major valley, but tree would have eastern/partial sun exposure (loses sun as it rises up/descends over roof line), walls to west and south. So a bit "sun deprived", all things considered, as the southern wall means no exposure from that side half the year, probably.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:45 PM (QDnY+)

292 Does anyone have advice for discouraging wasps? I was visiting my stepdaughter's new house today and they've got a variety of the pesky buggers, and she and her hubby can't abide them...they're reluctant to build ANY structures that would attract wasps.

Posted by: Miley's Tongue at August 29, 2015 04:49 PM (18eUN)

293 I'll give it some thought this week, rhomboid.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 04:50 PM (qahv/)

294 rhomboid at August 29, 2015 04:45 PM (QDnY+)

Check UC Riverside's website for avocado tree growing conditions. There is a nursery in Porterville that has many different varieties.

Posted by: Grandma Mimi at August 29, 2015 04:51 PM (u5LFV)

295 Hey JeanQ,

I'm up in New Meadows about half time. You must be close!

First year with my greenhouse. Tomatoes plants are huge, more blossoms than tomatoes, though. My sweet corn is through the top vents, 9 plus ft tall, with ears starting. Teepee Springs fire is 20 miles north of us, it has gotten too big, but prevailing winds have kept much of the smoke away.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at August 29, 2015 05:01 PM (aPcxH)

296 Butt stuff is one cause of butt rot, I believe.

Light blue paint on porch ceilings is supposed to discourage wasps and other bugs from nesting. It may be a myth but people swear by it.

Local garden gurus say to leave the paper wasps alone if possible because they eat webworms, which are real bad around here. Of course it's up to personal preference.

Posted by: stace at August 29, 2015 05:06 PM (CoX6k)

297 Without perusing the comments, I will venture that it is a gum tree---I have one in my backyard. I also have a black gum, which is a magnet for pileated woodpeckers when the berries ripen. They are large (crow sized) birds, black white with red head and crests who make an awful racket as they feed, a sight to behold.

Posted by: Semilitterate at August 29, 2015 05:30 PM (vGAig)

298 What kind of bee- or wasp-like creatures nest in holes in the ground? These are kind of black and white, or black and gray. I'm not seeing much yellow on them unless it's faint.

I've been trying to ignore them and just mowing over their hole as quickly as possible and moving on. But one of them stung me last weekend. It didn't leave a stinger which implies that they can sting more than once.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 05:31 PM (sdi6R)

299 I don't think Gravenstein is self-pollinating and it may be one that doesn't pollinate other apples.
Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 03:52 PM (qahv/)

Yes and yes. The graft is off the tree at the house I grew up at.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 29, 2015 05:36 PM (3pRHP)

300 Rickl,

Those would be yellow jackets. Yes, some have white coloration. Thousands of them in that nest. Be careful. They get mean.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at August 29, 2015 06:07 PM (zoqu1)

301 Re: that tree's fruit.

We used to call them "monkey balls".

Posted by: Linneaus, I'm not. at August 29, 2015 06:16 PM (FkgZk)

302 KT,
The Matt's wild cherry tomatoes are like tiny burst of full tomato taste. They are on the sweet side. The plants are covered in green clusters so I'll have cherry tomatoes for a while. My mom brought a bunch to the seniors center where she plays bridge, said they were like eating candy.

I like having plants that no one else around me have. They aren't necessarily rare but usually hard to acquire and grow in this area. Like hydrangea, which it's usually too hot around here to grow.

My pink Pride of Barbados seeds are on the way. Can't wait to grow them next year.

Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 06:25 PM (xVgrA)

303 300 Rickl,

Those would be yellow jackets. Yes, some have white coloration. Thousands of them in that nest. Be careful. They get mean.
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at August 29, 2015 06:07 PM (zoqu1)

Yes, they tend to be aggressive. I put up with paper wasps here and there because they get pretty tame, but I really hate the ground wasps.

There was a nest in a flower bed next to where I park my car and two got me one day while I was getting into my car. I didn't even know they were there until that.

We were debating what to do about them when a few days later we found the nest had been dug up by some animal and all the larvae and eggs eaten. Very impressive nest-- a big round thing they had constructed underground. I was even more impressed by the mystery animal that dug it out and destroyed it. My best guess is armadillo, but we never did figure it out.

Posted by: stace at August 29, 2015 06:28 PM (CoX6k)

304 My pink Pride of Barbados seeds are on the way. Can't wait to grow them next year.
Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 06:25 PM (xVgrA)

I was too busy to comment last week, but I really enjoyed the thread about your pride of Barbados, turks cap etc. Turk's cap and esperanzas have been slamdunk winners for me, but I actually somehow killed my one Pride of Barbados years ago. I think it was a very wet year or something--I've blanked the shame from memory. Now I'm inspired to plant some again.

Posted by: stace at August 29, 2015 06:35 PM (CoX6k)

305 Re: yellow jackets.

Raw gasoline works on ant mounds .....

No, you don't have to light it.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at August 29, 2015 06:37 PM (gS1oE)

306 Kindltot,

Very special to have a graft from the house you grew up in.

Lindafell,

Sounds like you are having fun. We will be looking for photos of those rare pink flowers in the future.

Posted by: KT at August 29, 2015 06:57 PM (qahv/)

307 Sorry, I only read through the first several comments. It's not a pure sycamore....it's a hybrid, a London planetree. It is more resistant to pollution problems and other disease, making it a highly desirable shade tree in urban settings. Suckers grow huge. Medium growth.

Posted by: Holly at August 29, 2015 07:10 PM (JUFeh)

308 Shit ass sycamore. Kill it now. My neighbors sycamore shits in my pool all year. Shallow roots and huge canopy. First tree to go down and take out your house in high winds.

Posted by: Rg at August 29, 2015 07:36 PM (IJ87a)

309 What kind of bee- or wasp-like creatures nest in holes in the ground? These are kind of black and white, or black and gray. I'm not seeing much yellow on them unless it's faint.
...But one of them stung me last weekend. It didn't leave a stinger which implies that they can sting more than once.
Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 05:31 PM

Are they very large. If so they could be cicadia killers. They showed up here a few years ago when it was very dry. Huge nasty lokking things but usually don't bite unless provoked.

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/cicada_killer.htm

Posted by: Farmer at August 29, 2015 08:23 PM (o/90i)

310 No, they're not large. They're about the size of yellow jackets, but I don't see any yellow on them. And they're not round like honeybees.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 09:19 PM (sdi6R)

311 If they were building a nest in the eaves of my house, I would nuke it with Raid without a second thought. But since they're in a hole in the ground in my backyard, I'm inclined towards "live and let live" as much as possible.

Posted by: rickl at August 29, 2015 09:25 PM (sdi6R)

312 Stave,
In case you check back here later. I am more than happy to share seeds with you. I know you are just down the road from me. Let me know.

Posted by: lindafell de spair at August 29, 2015 09:43 PM (xVgrA)

313 Sweet gum perhaps. They are very pretty but those little balls are annoying when they fall. They turn brown & are very pointy & worse than a bunch of Legos when you step on them barefooted. If the tree is close to a foot path then you will hate it.

Posted by: sharonL at August 30, 2015 12:44 PM (k0bWj)

314 I believe what you have is a London plane tree or hybrid plane tree. Look it up in Wikipedia or USDA plant base.

Posted by: Elena at August 30, 2015 02:47 PM (AZ4sn)

315 I have invested more time, energy,imagination, passion and talent in taking a dump than Robert Ryman did on "untitled. For F sake he didn't even bother to name it.

Posted by: simplemind at August 30, 2015 03:22 PM (BTnAK)

316 Tree is a sweetgum.

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